Vol 19, No 12

Articles in this issue

• A QUEER CHRISTMAS TREE (opens in a new tab)

  A comic Christmas poem by Carolyn Wells in which inanimate household objects ask Santa for whimsical gifts, opening Abbot Bassett's December editorial scrap-book column.
• Veterans of Philadelphia. (opens in a new tab)

  Account of the Veteran Wheelmen of Philadelphia's October 23, 1921 run to the William Penn Hotel, with 15 riders meeting at Valley Green on the Wissahickon and 62 men dining; speeches by William R. Tucker, J. Rhea Craig and Thomas Hare, and a note that Pennsylvania has overtaken Massachusetts in L.A.W. membership through the booster work of W. L. Lockwood, C. H. C. Cunningham and Marriott C. Morris.
• A Modern Plant in Miniature. (opens in a new tab)

  Describes the Veeder Manufacturing Co. of Hartford's working miniature model machine shop exhibited at the Boston Textile Exposition (Oct. 31-Nov. 5), complete with power house, freight cars, lathes and Veeder counters on every machine.
• CHRISTMAS TREE FRUIT a la Kipling (opens in a new tab)

  A humorous Kipling-parody Christmas poem on the burdens of gift-buying and exchanging presents.
• A Bicycle Coming Back. (opens in a new tab)

  A reprinted N.Y. Sun comic dialogue in which a Professor explains to his offended wife Isolde that he saved secretly to buy her a bicycle, arguing the bicycle's return is the best safeguard against automobile riders losing the use of their legs.
• The Dirt Road is Passing. (opens in a new tab)

  Editorial arguing the dirt road is being abandoned in city and country alike as farmers, now reliant on the automobile and town markets, become advocates of paved pike roads.
• Winter is Coming. (opens in a new tab)

  Reflects on cyclists' sociability and the fraternal fellowship of the League, and how winter's inclement weather drives members to the social entertainment of the many bicycle clubs.
• Numbered Roads. (opens in a new tab)

  Quotes the Irish Cyclist objecting to numbered roads as a source of confusion, contrasting them with the simpler Massachusetts system of colored painted rings on telegraph poles to mark state thoroughfares.
• SIGNS OF THE TIMES (opens in a new tab)

  A light verse cataloguing the sudden friendliness of janitors, postmen, cooks and elevator boys as Christmas approaches, closing the editorial column.